Written in the 1960s, TRUTH AND METHOD is Gadamer's magnum opus.

In 1492, previously separate worlds collided and began to merge, often painfully, into the world-system in which we live today.

The book explains the various approaches to ethical analysis and illustrates their application through the use of cases.

In this book, Mark Walker - a historical scholar of Nazi science - brings to light the overwhelming impact of Hitler's regime on science and, ultimately, on the pursuit of the German atomic bomb.

This book has evolved primarily as a text for senior level university courses in paleopedology: the study of fossil soils.

The book demonstrates that there are several important requirements for being scientific, and the most fundamental of these is maintaining an extensive, interconnected, coherent network of ideas.

' Arguing that writers have portrayed Columbus in three ways-as prophet or messiah, as ambitious gold-seeker, and as a conventional, rather unremarkable man-Stavans examines numerous poems, novels, short stories, dramas, and other works on ...

Most amateur astronomers – and many of those with similar interests but who are not currently practising observers – have only a sketchy understanding of space flight. This book provides an introduction to its mechanics.

This book recounts the epic saga of how we as human beings have come to understand the Solar System.